6.17.07

Category: dribblings

wow. it’s getting lame over here, no? let me make up my lack of updating with some pictures. i was messing with the digital camera and the memory card was full. i thought that it was strange to be full seeing as how i haven’t used it in over a year because well, it doesn’t work so well anymore, and then i got a new computer, and i didn’t have Corel on the new one, and i don’t know how to use any other programs to mod digital pics, and it’s not like i’m about to learn a new way of doing something that i already know how to do just because i don’t have the things to do it with.
Rambly Ramblerson.

so on the memory card was pictures of roxy and kaze. aw. poor kaze. so first, here’s a smiling roxy:

 

and here’s a pre-death kaze:

and here’s an extreme close-up of the kaz eating:

 

right, and here’s a picture of my lazy bum cat, toonces. i just took this picture and she was all, “gah, can’t you see i’m busy?”

 

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okay, enough with all the animal pics and on to the actual reason i got out the camera in the first place! some of you know that i have a passion for juggling. i love it. i love juggling and i love to watch people juggling. i could watch someone juggle all day long. lately i’ve been wanting to get some new juggling clubs because my old ones are beginner clubs which means that they’re affordable and well, club-shaped…so i guess they’ve got that going for them. they’re so warped that i can’t even balance one in my hand. s’anyway, mr.fleegan ordered me some new clubs and i can’t wait to get them. they’re PX3s and supposedly they are the best clubs out there…in that they are very well made…not in their looks.

i did not want the PX3 vegas/deco clubs because they are quite pricey ($37 per club) and i figure since i’m not actually a performer i’ve really no need to have fancy props. so now i’ve got some fluourescent green PX3 pirouettes on the way. i must be living right.

but i’m really disappointed in the color choices for juggling clubs. it seems they’re all too…i don’t know…clowny? i guess that clubs need to be brightly colored because….they show up better? probably. but it doesn’t mean i have to like it. so i thought about getting white clubs…but hello, like those won’t show every scrape and dirt stain. and even if they are decorated it’s always something shiny and just… no choices! and no girl colors! i realize that not nearly as many girls juggle as guys, but c’mon, there are other girl jugglers out there!

so bright green it is. orange is my favorite color, but jimmy and i agreed that the greens were a bit cooler.

i know. this is boring. but wait! it gets better! ish!

so i was looking at my old clubs:

and i thought, “blah. they’re so lame and circus-y.” and i never liked that they weren’t all uniform in color. so i figured hey, i have an art degree somewhere, right? i’m pretty crafty and clever at times…i think i can decorate my own props! yeah! why have i never thought of this before?!

so mr. fleegan and i went to Hobby Lobby to see if i could find anything to cover my clubs with and i came home with pretty paper that i found over in the scrapbook section (there were only about 900,000 choices! finally! choices!) and mr. fleegan managed to find some stickers to decorate his new wireless guitar controller for Guitar Hero II (Cookie, you will LOVE it.). so. pretty paper.

then we headed over to Lowe’s to see what i could get in the form of vinyl tape. SCORE! turns out i had choices there too!
see? it’s all about the choices. and since i’m an ol’ art nerd from way back, i had scissors, x-acto knife, and high-dollar clear contact paper (the good stuff).

materials:


i know! BROWN tape! EEEEEEEEEEE!

so i took off the shiny circus-y decals and used them as templates and KA-BLAMMO! i now have very pretty, girly, juggling clubs!

let’s see a blurry close-up of that pattern, huh?

how cool is that?

i’ve got some more paper that’s kind of a gun metal blue color that i’m going to put on the other set i have so in case mr. fleegan wants to juggle (he doesn’t usually juggle clubs though) he doesn’t have to use my girly props. i’m reasonable like that. i’m all about choices. and best part of all, when the decoration gets scuffed up and torn or whatnot i get to pick out different awesome pretty paper! they had seasonal paper! and some really cool stuff that i didn’t pick cos i wasn’t sure what color tape i could get but i bought brown, white, and black tape so now i’m ready for some awesome dec’d out props!

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